Favorites in Alice.

Miss K wants me to write about my favorite things in this book. Yay. No really, I love doing this, only most of the time people cut me off about 10 minutes into me jabbering. It's quite annoying.

I'm going to do this in a series of categories and then explanations for each thing.

Character: I can't decide between two, so I'll do both. I really like the Griffin, mostly because of how he acts. You see, he's all like, oh shut-up Alice, no questions for you, and he's really bold with his statements and comments. Also, just like everyone out here, he's completely psycho and knows random facts, and he seems to make up words every other sentence. I do that sometimes. Just incorporate new words in if I can't think of any that really express what I'm going for. It kind of attaches me to him.

I also like the Dormouse. Is that how you spell that? Dormouse? Who knows. Anyway, this guy is one of the best because he's just funny, and he gives Alice a lot of nonsense to think about (which I appreciate, because I don't like her much, and she has to think about something for once). He tells a story about treacle that's just hilarious, going from insane one moment to incoherent the next. It just makes for a funny telling. And he hangs out with the Hatter and the Hare, who would be the next on this list.

Scene: Once again, two come to mind. When she's with the blue caterpillar, I was laughing from his questions and her dim-witted responses. I really like the humor here. Then, I like the croquet match. Why? Who cares. It's just so dumb it's perfect for Wonderland. I mean, the balls walk around, the flamingos hit those hedgehogs them with their heads (successfully less than 10% of the time), and the guards who are the gatey, archy things (I can't remember the exact term right now) pretty much leave by the time the Queen is done ordering executions. Seriously, this guy is a genius, to come up with this stuff! GO LEWIS CARROLL!

And last...

Moment of craziness: In most books, this couldn't be a category, but it pretty much sums up Wonderland here. My favorite moment was when they held the trial to see who stole the pastry things. A trial. For pastries. I mean, really? Four reasons- 1. Alice is by now closer to her normal size and about twice as big as everyone else. This pretty much makes her conspicuous and awkward, adding to the scene. 2. She knocks over the jury bow while standing and puts the poor lizard back in on his head. Of all that she could do. And she pretty much crushed the building while standing, as the room wasn't that big for a normal sized person. 3. Then, the lizard on the jury loses his pencil close to the beginning of the trial, and is just writing with his finger, which doesn't write by the way. Sigh. 4. Also, the white rabbit calls on the Hatter to be a witness, but he knows nothing and just says that he's nuts, a hatter, and innocent (even though he wasn't the one on trial).

And so, this book is awesome and good for everybody who is insane, thinks insanity is funny, thinks blabbering idiots are funny, or just like plain nonsense in the written form. Good for all of you this applies to, and please don't come to my house.

Ciao,

Carli

Alice and Her Logical Deformities

This girl has problems. She goes down a rabbit hole that somehow is big enough for her, and then she falls for what seems to be an hour. And none of that bothers her, she's just thinking about, oh what would it be like to fall through the earth, oh I'll be so brave when I get home, ohhhh. I mean really, isn't it kind of obvious that something is wrong (WHICH SHE NEVER REALLY NOTICES) if you're in freefall. And, once she falls, she's just off to explore and tries to go through a door, but she's too big, she doesn't have a key, blah blah blah, you know. She cries a huge puddle and then shrinks into it. This is where her brain shuts off or something, because she's talking to animals without a care in the world.

More proof she's not bright- she talks to every animal about her cat eating their species. Not the best thing to do, talking to your friends about their predators.

Then she completely defies the laws of physics by jumping out of the puddle, and the hall disappears for no good reason to some other magical place and bam- she sees mister 'oh I'm late,' the rabbit and goes off doing whatever he says for no good reason. And she puts up with all this. She even goes and talks to mad people (but then she's kind of mad herself), which is normally not what parents advise their kids to do. Sigh.

Still, she has spunk- she will do what she can to understand and survive, even if it means contradicting the Queen and arguing with the criminally insane (or something like that). So she's dumb, but with reasons, and bold, but willing to do whatever these creatures (and I use this word because even those who are animals have really very few animal traits) say. My favorite crazy people so far are the Dormouse, who tells some story about treacle; the Caterpillar, who's blue and filled with nonsense, and griffon and the Mock Turtle, who should have their own TV show.

Well, I have about 10 pages left, so I'll go finish and see if I can acquire Through the Looking Glass, the sequel, tomarrow.

Ciao,

Carli